Looking ahead in the worldwide air cargo market, the chief executive of Airline Network Services expressed confidence that the company's record of growth and expansion established last year will be doubled in 2011.

"Through careful management and hands-on operational procedures, ANS was successful in producing highly favorable year-end results in the face of a difficult economy," Jens Tubbesing, CEO of the New York headquartered general sales agency, stated.

Remarking on emerging signs of business opportunity in the gradually strengthening marketplace, he noted that the company has expanded into Canadian transborder and transocean activity.''ANS also was described on the cusp of serving the fast-growing Brazilian market.

Tubbesing, a former president of Cargo Network Services, was careful to emphasize that along with America's slow recovery from recession; he is not unmindful of the headwinds buffeting the U.S. economy: governmental spending cuts, jobs, housing woes, trade deficits, etc.' The plain fact, he said, is that the driving force behind global economic recovery is centered overseas, and it is expected to remain so until U. S. recovery becomes self-sustaining.' Against this backdrop, ANS expect to add at least two additional international air carriers to its service roster in the first quarter.

"Recognizing the challenges, ANS is paying special attention to those trade centers, especially in Asia as well as at those foreign sources of supply to China and India," the

ANS CEO continued.' "In the highly competitive'environment'in air commerce, ANS' hallmark is its optimal level of customer service, designed to accommodate the 'customer's specific handling and delivery requirements.' This is a natural result of ANS' insistence on staffing dedicated air cargo professionals.